Release Of A Hostage
Sir,—The tone of your leading article reminded me of another one written many years ago in a provincial newspaper which began thus: “Last week we warned Lord Salisbury ...” What “basic principle of justice” prompted Britain and its Christian colleagues to attack—sorry, open—China in the ninteenth century, the League of Nations to deny racial equality, America to intervene in a civil war and to maintain an economic blockade for 20 years, the United Nations to declare China the aggressor in Korea? And what “spiteful expediency” resulted in the Free World’s “unrecognising” a quarter of mankind? May- I remind you that the preventive detention laws in Hong Kong did not require the Government to give reason for arrests nor allow detainees the right to appeal?-r¥ours, etc, C. October 12, 1969. [Our correspondent has the story wrong. The hoary newspaper legend—-or tho New Zealand version-of it—has the “Clutha Leader” solemnly warning the Tsar of Russia.— Ed, “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 12
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